Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 810 - 760: The Grand Finale (Part 1)_2

"Yes, eldest son. Giddy up!" The coachman hurriedly drove the carriage away.

Four carriages followed behind.

Of these four, two carried people, and two were loaded with luggage.

Twenty Imperial Guard soldiers, dressed in light armor with swords at their waists, followed on horseback.

After the new Emperor’s identity was confirmed as Prince Luling, the most observant Internal Affairs Bureau immediately assigned guards to the four members of Prince Luling’s family.

Li Xingmao was to travel far, so the Grand Steward of the Internal Affairs Bureau provided him with twenty escorts.

In addition, there were four eunuchs and four palace maids in the two carriages.

These were the attendants assigned to Chai Eying and Princess Consort Wei.

The Xue Family, unwilling to give up, shouted at Li Xingmao, who had walked about ten steps away, "You are the eldest son, the future position of the Crown Prince must be yours! Mao Lang, it doesn’t matter if you don’t acknowledge me, but think of Jingjing! He is the legitimate eldest son, his bloodline is the noblest, he must be the Grand Prince!"

The procession did not stop again and quickly moved past.

What the Xue Family didn’t know was that the eunuchs and palace maids in the two carriages were mocking her short-sightedness.

To judge people, one must look far ahead.

Once the group had moved a distance away, the Xue Family turned around resentfully.

At this moment, someone called out to her, "Isn’t this the second sister? What’s up, the Li Family’s eldest son is ignoring you? You’ve already separated, why are you looking for him again? Aren’t you ashamed?"

The Xue Family looked up and saw a carriage parked by the road, a woman lifting the curtain and smiling mockingly at her.

But that smile held a hint of sarcasm.

This woman speaking looked very similar to the Xue Family. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

However, her face was softer compared to the Xue Family.

The woman was dressed in luxurious robes, and her carriage was grand and ornate, with two large guards at its sides.

The nameplate on the carriage read Changyi Marquis Mansion.

The Xue Family looked at her, gritted her teeth, and sneered coldly, "Although I have parted ways with him, we have children, and he will be the Crown Prince in the future. My son will be the Grand Prince. Xue Yuzhen, don’t be too proud, you’ll have to kowtow to me in the future!"

Xue Yuzhen covered her mouth with a kerchief and laughed, "Really? I’ll wait for you then."

"Then you just wait and see!" The Xue Family glared at her coldly and turned to leave.

A little distance away was a small carriage.

The horse was an old one with lots of hair missing, and the carriage’s cloth covering was dirty, old, and patched up.

It was a very shabby old carriage that the Xue Family bought for twenty-five taels of silver as transportation.

A new carriage cost sixty taels, which she couldn’t afford.

She had no coachman and came here driving herself specifically to meet Li Xingmao.

Yu Wen Zan had been executed, and the house given to her was also confiscated. Her family wouldn’t allow her to return.

She only had a small amount of silver, but fortunately, she had previously obtained several hundred taels from Yu Wen Zan.

However, she dared not spend it recklessly, saving on food, clothing, shelter, and transportation whenever possible.

Xue Yuzhen wasn’t about to let the Xue Family off easily.

She called out again to her retreating figure, "I have to thank you, Xue Wenzhen! Although we weren’t born of the same mother, you’ve been so good to me! You mixed moldy flour into the flour I prepared, nearly poisoning Princess Consort Luling with the cakes I made! If not for that poisoned flour, I would have entered the Lu Ling Royal Mansion and ended up serving hard labor in Zhen An Prefecture. I would have been cast aside. Fortunately, you did what you did, otherwise, with my poor health, I might have died there! I really ought to thank you!"

Her words were dripping with sarcasm.

The Xue Family turned in anger, pointing at Xue Yuzhen in the carriage and cursed, "You’re lying! When did I put moldy flour in the flour you prepared? Stop framing me!"

Xue Yuzhen laughed, "Alright, don’t admit it if you wish, in any case, it’s all in the past, Heaven and Earth know, you and I know! What could I do? My birth mother died early, and my father became a stepfather. He married a second wife, leaving no place for me at home. I was dismissed by Princess Consort Luling and could only marry into a poor branch of the Changyi Marquis Mansion. My father only gave me a dowry of five hundred taels, but gave you a dowry of five thousand taels."

The Xue Family coldly replied, "Those five thousand taels are my mother’s dowry. Your mother died early, and her dowry was taken by your uncle. You deserved not to have a dowry! Father giving you five hundred taels was already quite generous, yet you still find it insufficient?"

"My mother died two months after my uncle also passed away, so you all pin the blame on him, anyway, the dead can’t speak, and I was too young back then." Xue Yuzhen let out a cold laugh, "I truly have a miserable fate, with a mother dead early, an uncle who died soon after, a father who doesn’t care, a stepmother who despises me, and a husband who’s a pitiable man. With no parents, living in a small house, he’s neither adept at learning nor martial arts, unable to do business, nearly starving me to death."